Definition of "quintal" []

• A unit of mass in the metric system equal to 100 kilograms. (noun)
• See hundredweight. (noun)

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• "All the marchandise which they sell or buy within the sayd citie, they bargaine for at so many serafines per quintal, which is"
• "The Crown of Victory which the figure holds in her hands weighs one hundred quintals (a quintal is a hundred-weight)."
• "What is there called the quintal weighs from and hundred a fifty to two hundred Paris pounds, or a hundred and seventy-five Paris pounds at a medium, which reduces the price of the hundred weight English to about eight shillings sterling, not a fourth part of what is commonly paid for the brown or muskavada sugars imported from our colonies, and not a sixth part of what is paid for the finest white sugar."